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• AFFHO
  Website of the Australasian Federation of Family History Organisations. Includes: indexes, guides, publications, projects, events, general information and links.
  
  
• Auckland City Libraries. Family history = Tāmaki Pātaka Kōrero
  Links and guides to the family history and genealogy resources of Auckland City Libraries.
  
  
• AUSNZ passenger lists : helping family historians find the vessel that brought their ancestors to Australasia
  Helps family historians locate passenger lists for migrant ships to Australia and New Zealand.
  
  
• Bibliography of New Zealand family histories
  A listing of all separately published New Zealand family histories. Accessed through the University of Waikato Library online database page.
  
  
• Birth, death & marriage historical records
  BDM provides access to government births, deaths and marriages records.
  
  
• Births, deaths and marriages = Whānautanga, matenga, mārenatanga
  Provices access to registered birth, death and marriage information, and related services. Includes information on marriage, civil unions, name changes and family history.
  
  
• Carter's family history via New Zealand
  Family history website, also available in German. Chiefly shows links to family history in Onehunga and some to the Copley family in England. Includes genealogies, passenger lists, etc.
  
  
• Cemeteries / South Taranaki District Council
  Online searching of burial records held by South Taranaki District Council.
  
  
• Cemeteries and crematorium / Porirua City Council
  Provides information on opening hours, burials, searching and making corrections to burial records. Includes online searching of burial and cremation records.
  
  
• Cemeteries and crematorium / Rotorua District Council
  Enables online searching of Rotorua District burial and cremation records for public cemeteries and the city crematorium, dating back to 1882.
  
  
• Cemeteries search / Tararua District Council
  Online search of burial records held by the Tararua District Council.
  
  
• Cemeteries
  A guide for genealogical research. Cemetery and crematorium records can be selected online from: Bolton St cemetery, Karori cemetery, Makara cemetery.
  
  
• Cemetery database / City of Napier
  Searchable database by the Napier City Council that provides information on interment details, inscriptions, photo and location maps.
  
  
• Cemetery database search
  Information about cemeteries in the South Waikato District. Includes an online cemetery search tool that can be used to locate burial plots and related information.
  
  
• Cemetery records search / Marlborough District Council
  Searches burials in the Marlborough District from 1890 onwards. Provides full name, year of burial and cemetery.
  
  
• Cemetery search / Horowhenua District Council
  An ongoing community project that enables local burial records to be searched. People can find out where their friends and family are buried.
  
  
• Cemetery search / Manawatu District Council
  A searchable database of cemetery records from the Feilding, Halcombe, Kimbolton, Pohangina, Rangiwahia, Rongotea, Sandon and Waituna West cemeteries in the Manawatu region.
  
  
• Cemetery search / Wanganui District Council
  A searchable database which contains records of burials in the district since 1 July 2007 and cremations since 1 February 2008. Historical records will be added in future.
  
  
• Cemetery search
  Search facility to locate the burial records of people buried in Rodney District Council administered cemeteries. Also has information on the cemeteries in the Rodney District.
  
  
• Chinese in New Zealand
  Articles and information collected by Steven Young about the Chinese community in New Zealand, particularly those who have been here several generations. Provides articles by a variety of authors and covers all aspects of political, cultural and social life; includes family histories and information about the poll tax reconcilliation process.
  
  
• Christchurch City Council cemeteries database
  Provides search facilities for details of internments in the Christchurch City Council cemeteries.
  
  
• Clan Cameron Association of New Zealand
  About the clan in New Zealand. Includes historical information about the clan, "The journal of Jessie Campbell on board the 'Blenheim' bound for New Zealand in 1840" and full-text newsletters.
  
  
• Council services, cemetery
  Information about the Akatarawa Cemetery, including rules, fees and charges for burials, and a database of burial records.
  
  
• CousinConnect.com
  The New Zealand section of a website designed for posting genealogy queries.
  
  
• ExploreGenealogy
  UK based website presenting articles and information on a range of family history resources including resources specific to New Zealand and Australia.
  
  
• Finding someone in our cemeteries
  Provides search facilities for cemetery records from all three Hamilton cemeteries from 1850s on. Also gives access to general information on the cemeteries' services and funeral directors.
  
  
• First four ships
  Site containing information on Canterbury colonist families, their arrival in New Zealand and their histories.
  
  
• Friends of the Bolton Street Memorial Park
  Includes a searchable burials list, maps and tours of the site, history.
  
  
• Genealogical Computing Group (GCG) : special interest group of the New Zealand Society of Genealogists Inc. (NZSG)
  Fosters the use of computers as a tool for genealogical research. Contact details for local groups.
  
  
• Genealogy and grave location enquiries
  Provides search facilities for details on anyone buried at any Dunedin cemetery. Also includes general information on the cemeteries, such as hours of opening and locations.
  
  
• Genealogy index
  An index of the Wellington, New Zealand newspaper notices for births, deaths, marriages, anniversaries, and in memoriam published daily since 1st January 2000, for the purposes of genealogy and family research.
  
  
• Helen's page of New Zealand history
  The site focuses on Wellington and mid to lower North Island genealogical resources such as passenger lists, pioneers, shipwrecks, registers, etc.
  
  
• Heritage help
  Web site of a Wellington, N.Z. genealogist. Includes an annotated list of cemeteries in greater Wellington; information about the suburb of Hataitai and family history information for the Moore, Doyle and McKirdy families.
  
  
• Interment.net cemetery transcription library : New Zealand cemetery records
  Links to cemetery record transcriptions, organised by province.
  
  
• International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies- Cemetery Project : New Zealand
  Site includes brief history of Jews in New Zealand with information on location of cemeteries, links to Jewish cemeteries other countries.
  
  
• Iwidex
  Index to published and unpublished information sources on tribal history, tikanga-a-iwi, and whakapapa held in the Heritage and Research Collections of Auckland City Libraries.
  
  
• New Zealand bound
  Dedicated to identifying genealogical resources to assist in locating which New Zealand bound ship an immigrant ancestor was aboard. Provides passenger lists and a list of the main ports.
  
  
• New Zealand family history@ Christchurch City Libraries
  European New Zealand family history resources held by the libraries or that can be accessed through them. The information to be found in these resources and when you need to look elsewhere. The main focus is Christchurch and Canterbury information, from the 19th and early 20th century.
  
  
• New Zealand genealogy links
  Extensive lists of links, most of them to surname searchable records. Includes Māori whakapapa.
  
  
• New Zealand historical data / created and compiled by Dawn Chambers
  A personal web site offering a range of historical data - lists of earthquakes and other natural phenomena, fires, weather summaries, missing persons, coastal ship wrecks, and a page is designed to assist researchers who are using the NZ Society of Genealogists CD-ROM.
  
  
• New Zealand Ireland Connection
  This site has been established to highlight the historical and contemporary connections between New Zealand and Ireland. It includes a brief history of Irish emigration; a bibliography; details of New Zealand connections in Ireland; past and contemporary Irish connections in New Zealand; a list of Irish migrants; and links to relevant sites.
  
  
• New Zealand obituaries
  Provides online access to a range of services to support grieving relatives and friends of the deceased including a searchable archive of death notices.
  
  
• New Zealand Society of Genealogists : family history : preserving our past for the future
  NZSG aims to assist users with their family history and genealogical research. Site includes resources, events, online shop, general information, library catalogue and members area.
  
  
• New Zealand yesteryears
  Provides information of interest to genealogists. Includes shipping information, diaries and lists from 1800-1900; resources and archives for genealogists arranged by region and a surnames interest list.
  
  
• New ZealandGenWeb
  The New ZealandGenWeb Project acts as the host site for the New ZealandGenWeb regional projects and is one of the participating sites of the WorldGenWeb Project. The regional projects on the web site provide extensive links to genealogical resources. A separate section provides resources and information relevant to general New Zealand research and is targeted at those less familiar with resources available online.
  
  
• Norsewood Cemetery project
  Site includes lists of all known graves, with links to cemetery records; names of those whose burial site is unknown/unmarked; immigrant ships and their passengers; land records and other related lists; family trees; and forum.
  
  
• Online cemetery search / Whangarei District Council
  Includes information such as the full name, age, date of death, date of burial or cremation, type of burial and funeral director for burials in the Whangarei District.
  
  
• Otago nominal index to 1876
  An index to names in documents held by the Hocken Library, Dunedin, New Zealand. A joint project between the Hocken Library and the Dunedin Branch of the New Zealand Society of Genealogists
  
  
• Our stuff! : Denise and Peter's homepage
  A collection of NZ history resources useful to genealogists. Includes lists such as early electoral rolls.
  
  
• Pākehā(European)/Māori transliterations
  A list of given and surnames in English and Māori transliterated and has a link to the Māori Interest Group of the New Zealand Society of Genealogists.
  
  
• Passenger arrivals at Port Chalmers, New Zealand, March 1848 - January 1851 : an expanded and corrected version of Dr Hocken's lists
  John MacGibbon has taken the passenger lists of ships arriving in Port Chalmers (1848-1851), compiled by Dr Hocken, and created a database of names accessible by ship and date. There are links to sites of passenger lists, and other genealogical interests.
  
  
• Passenger ships arriving in Australasian ports : New Zealand shipping
  An index of passenger ships arriving in New Zealand between 1839 and 1905. The lists are derived from Sir Henry Brett's "White Wings" Auckland : Brett Printing Co., 1924-1928.
  
  
• Pearls pad
  Includes information sources for NZ genealogy research, especially for Auckland, Bay of Islands and Coromandel areas.
  
  
• Presbyterian Church Archives of Aotearoa New Zealand
  The archives bring together information from many sources, particularly in relation to Otago and Southland. They include genealogical material and a database of Presbyterian marriages as well as a large collection of photographs, cine film, slides, audio/video tapes & plans.
  
  
• Purewa Cemetery and Crematorium
  Provides information on the facilities, burial plots and gardens. Includes online search facilities for burial and cremation details.
  
  
• Research your family history or whakapapa
  List of major reference sources held in the family history collection of the National Library of New Zealand, and a list of links to major overseas genealogy sources.
  
  
• Shadows of time : genealogical services & information
  Databases of genealogical information.
  
  
• St Bathans Catholic Cemetery
  Contains a surnames list of those buried there, cemetery plan showing the locations of the burial plots, photographs of the headstones, inscriptions from headstones and genealogy.
  
  
• Taupo District cemeteries online database
  Online search of burial records held by the Taupo District Council (TDC).
  
  
• TDC cemetery search
  Page allows simple search of burial records of all Timaru District cemeteries; optional link to an advanced search.
  
  
• Thames-Coromandel District Council. Cemetery search
  Searchable database of cemetery records compiled by transferring information from district registers/books.
  
  
• Tributes : providing online memorials
  Service enabling people to post information about a person recently deceased, including funeral details and messages from family and friends.
  
  
• Wellington City Libraries. Māori Collection and Resources
  Includes full text material (e.g. Legends of Te Whanganui-a-Tara), indexes and iwi (hapu) history reading lists.